The Disabled Tyrant’s Pet Palm Fish [Transmigration] - Chap 18

Chap 18
(Translator’s note: Since all of the Prince’s names are really similar. I’m just going to put
numbers to denote them lmao.)

Li Yu decided to use the shapeshifting pill on the day of the banquet.

Not long prior, the “sharing a bed” step was completed. He received a very strange reward– a
lifelike fish pillow that looked just like him. Because his previous rewards were stuff like the
interdimensional space or all sorts of physical enhancements, he originally was pretty excited to
see the reward. Who’d have expected he’d get this kind of seemingly useless thing after all that
effort. At that time, Li Yu instantly felt the System screwed him over again. He saved the reward
and didn’t retrieve it. Now that he planned to change into a human, this pillow suddenly gained
significance.

If he changed into a human and the fish tank became empty, the servants walking around could
very easily discover that he had

disappeared. He might be exposed immediately. This fish pillow was practically designed to help
him make his escape. When placed in the water, it didn’t move at all. From far away, it looked
pretty similar!

After finishing the “sharing a bed” task, the next step was “Reach a deeper understanding with
the Tyrant.” Li Yu was used to these eccentric tasks already, his expression no longer changed
and his heart no longer jumped because of the misleading titles. The shitty system often
pretended to be dead after announcing the mission. Li Yu engaged in all sorts of attempts. This
‘deeper understanding’ was even more ambiguous than ‘interacting’ and ‘getting along,’ and
made this fish completely at a loss. Since he didn’t make any process yet anyways, it didn’t hurt
to temporarily put it aside.

Li Yu made plans seriously. He only had 2 hours to turn into a human. The banquet was held in
the Ninghui Hall inside the Jing Estate. During that time, most of the people will gather over
there. Because there will be servants and chefs from the Imperial Palace, and attendants brought
over by the other Princes, the Jing Estate will definitely be bursting with noise and excitement
and all sorts of people walking all over. Mixing his unfamiliar face amongst the crowd won’t
attract much attention.

He wanted to first give a visit to the kitchens and eat some human food. After changing into a
fish, he could only eat fish food. The red fish food was made from flour, but after eating it a lot,
he really missed normal food and dishes. He really wanted to eat a good stir-fry meal and stuff
himself. The Jing Estate kitchens needed to feed the guests; they definitely won’t be lacking in
food. Li Yu heard Wang Xi say before, in order to avoid guests not having enough to eat during
the banquets, usually they’d prepare every dish several times. Li Yu decided that he’d only scoop
a little from every dish to have a taste, completely not worried about devouring all of the good
food.

After eating, he planned to wander around Jing Estate. He never toured the Jing Estate yet. He
heard that the Emperor even prepared opera singers. He can sneak over and watch ancient people
sing opera while eating some sunflower seeds. Originally he even wanted to go out of the estate,
but he was afraid that exiting would be easy, but returning would be hard. There were guards at
the Jing estate gates. The time was too short as well……

If something happened midway and he changed before reaching the bedroom again, he also had
this well planned already. He could bring a teacup with him, along with enough fresh water and
fish food in his interdimensional space. If he changed back, he could jump into the teacup and
not be afraid of anything.

Whatever he could think of, he considered. Everything seemed foolproof. In order to make
people not discover that the fish pillow wasn’t the same as the real fish, before the scheduled day
of the banquet, Li Yu stopped swimming so frequently. Most of the time, he spent laying on the
white stone bed like a salted fish. A few times when Jing-wang came to see him, Li Yu swam
over reflexively to nuzzle his fingers. However, after getting close, he suddenly remembered that
he needed to maintain his distance and instead, changed his action to waving his tail and then
swimming away loftly.

Jing-wang: ???

On the day of the banquet, Wang Xi accompanied Jing-wang to Ninghui Hall bright and early in
the morning. Although the Emperor prepared everything already, as the host, Jing-wang still
couldn’t avoid dealing with the guests. By his side, Wang Xi also helped him. According to Jing-
wang’s wishes, several inner servants were placed around the bedroom where Li Yu stayed.
They didn’t need to stand guard constantly; this way, they wouldn’t accidentally scare the little
carp if it came out strolling. However, the inner servants needed to occasionally come in to give
the fish a glance.

— This assignment from Jing-wang was really pretty troublesome.
As soon as Jing-wang left, Li Yu immediately retrieved the fish pillow reward. He pushed the
fish pillow on to the white stone bed and placed it like a salted fish. Thinking and still concerned,
he covered the pillow with the water grass blanket. Now when seen from afar, it’d really look
like he was only sleeping.

Arranging the pillow in order, Li Yu jumped into the teacup closest to the crystal fish tank and
then obtained the shapeshifting medicine at this time.

Taking a deep breath, he confirmed his selection with the System for the last time. The pill bottle
of the shapeshifting medicine fell into his arms in a blink of an eye.

Originally, he was pretty worried about opening the pill bottle as a fish. However, this bottle
almost seemed sentient, like it knew it was about to be used. Even the seal on the bottle
disappeared.

…… what if this was another trap?

With the shapeshifting medicine in hand, Li Yu hesitated briefly. Then he heard music fainting
in the distance and knew that the song and dance specifically arranged for the banquet was about
to start. The little pampered wife was about to appear on stage, or perhaps has already appeared
on stage.

The predestined meeting should have started, right……?

It was only transforming for two hours anyways. He was just going to eat some food next door,
it’s nothing serious.

Li Yu no longer hesitated. With a hard to describe mood, he drank the medicine in one go.

This medicine…… didn’t have any taste. After drinking, he can still smack his lips without a
care. Yet, unexpectedly, the next moment, his vision became fuzzy.

Crap. He didn’t expect the shapeshifting medicine would have negative effects.

The little carp gradually lost consciousness.

……
Ninghui Palace.

The 3rd Prince, Mu TianMing(3) got up several times to give toast to Jing-wang.

Mu TianMing(3) was not the same as Mu TianZhao(2). His birth mother’s status was lower than
Qiu-guifei. His age was also younger than Mu TianZhao(2). He was suppressed in all areas by
Mu TianZhao(2) by a head. Ever since he decided to fight for the throne with the 2nd Prince, Mu
TianMing(3) did everything the opposite of Mu TianZhao(2).

Jing-wang had a disability and couldn’t inherit the throne. In Mu TianMing(3)’s eyes, he wasn’t
a threat at all. Since Mu TianZhao(2) didn’t like Jing-wang, of course Mu TianMing(3) had to
express his goodwill towards Jing-wang. If Mu TianZhao(2) wanted to win over Jing-wang, then
Mu TianMing(3) definitely needed to intercept midway! As long as he could make the 2nd
Prince unhappy, he was happy!

Not to mention, although Jing-wang wasn’t useful and the Emperor never gave Jing-wang any
real power, Jing-wang still had Empress Xiao Hui’s clan, the ChengEn Palace Estate backing
him. If Mu TianMing(3) could gain connections with ChengEn Palace Estate through Jing-wang,
that would be an extremely beneficial thing.

Mu TianMing(3) had sent plenty of gifts to Jing-wang before already, but they were all rejected
by Jing-wang. He was just fretting about having no excuse to get close, fortunately Mu
TianZhao(2)’s mother, Qiu-Guifei, did something foolish. He immediately planned to seize this
opportunity.

However, Jing-wang didn’t like anything so it was very hard to please him. The generous gifts
sent before were not good enough. Mu TianMing(3) and his trusted aides thought of plenty of
ideas, but Jing-wang didn’t need anything. The only thing was that his harem was empty. Mu
TianMing(3) wanted to try his best to send some bed partners to Jing-wang. On one hand, it
could please Jing-wang; on the other hand, there’d be someone next to Jing-wang who could
help put in a good word for Mu TianMing(3). Multipurpose with one action.

He brought over a few entertainers into the Jing Estate, all exceptionally beautiful. In the dance
group, the lead dancer was a man with a refined appearance, red lips and white teeth. With light
make-up, he was actually several times more attractive than the women in the same group. Mu
TianMing(3) didn’t know which was Jing-wang’s taste, so he purposely prepared men and
women. What if with the dance performance, one could enter Jing-wang’s eyes?
After the start of the banquet, Mu TianMing(3) first started to give toast. Jing-wang didn’t like to
drink liquor so he didn’t accept.

Mu TianMing(3) then suggested calling forth the entertainers and dancers. Jing-wang didn’t like
watching dance, so he didn’t respond.

For a moment, Mu TianMing(3) felt somewhat awkward.

The 6th Prince, Mu TianXiao(6), was the 3rd Prince’s follower. He hastily helped Mu
TianMing(3) smooth things over and then shot some eye gestures towards 7th Prince and 8th
Prince, who were finally able to leave the imperial palace to play. Upon learning that there were
interesting dances to see, the little 7th Prince and 8th Prince were both extremely excited.
Although Jing-wang didn’t have much relations with the older Princes, he wouldn’t bicker with
the little kids. Plus Wang Xi also put in a few words of persuasion, so Jing-wang permitted the
dance entertainment.

Mu TianMing(3) was finally able to order the long awaited dance group on stage.

The 3rd Prince went through great pains. He knew ahead of time that Jing-wang started raising a
fish recently. So he specifically prepared a fish lotus dance. The entertainers were mostly
wearing green, dressed up as the leaves of the lotus. The lead dancer was in white, transformed
into the elegant and refined lotus flower. The 3rd Prince felt himself that this was a rather novel
idea.

Jing-wang reluctantly watched it. The 3rd Prince said it was a fish lotus dance, but Jing-wang
didn’t see any fish from start to finish. Not to mention, there was a white clothed dancer who had
an outstanding appearance, but his eyes carried anxiety and resentment, like they were filled with
water.

On the contrary, Jing-wang felt somewhat angry. Was performing a dance for him some
enormous injustice to this person or something?

Mu TianZhao(2) saw Jing-wang staring at the person leading the dance and felt his heart jump.
Terrified that Mu TianMing(3) was about to win over Jing-wang first, the 2nd Prince also got up
and said sincerely: “5th little brother, my mother offended you greatly a few days ago. As your
elder brother, I apologize for her mistake and hope 5th little brother will be magnanimous
enough to forgive her.”
As soon as the 2nd Prince started talking, servants took the chance to squeeze the 3rd Prince’s
dance group to the side. The 3rd Prince was furious but didn’t dare to speak. The 3rd Prince
didn’t dare to start an argument with the 2nd Prince in front of everyone in public, and could
only swallow his anger, quietly observing for changes.

Since Mu TianZhao(2) mentioned Qiu-shi, Jing-wang sneered. Wang Xi immediately said for
Jing-wang: “As long as Guifei-niangniang reflects on her actions according to the Emperor’s
instructions, his highness naturally wouldn’t go against the Emperor’s words and persist on this
matter.”

Mu TianZhao(2): “……”

Mu TianZhao(2) originally planned to beg for Jing-wang’s forgiveness, then plead leniency for
Qiu-shi along the way to shorten Qiu-shi’s solitary confinement. Yet why did he feel like Jing-
wang completely blocked all the words he planned to say.

“This elder brother has another related request.”

Unable to achieve one thing, Mu TianZhao(2) continued to say with a thick face: “My mother
has an iridescent pearl that accidently fell. I heard one of 5th brother’s servants picked it up.
Many thanks for safekeeping it all of these days. If it’s convenient for 5th brother, please grant
its return.”

Actually, although the iridescent pearl that Qiu-shi lost was precious, how she lost it was rather
humiliating. Qiu-shi herself didn’t want to see this pearl ever again. Mu TianZhao(2) was only
forcibly using this as an excuse. If Jing-wang returned this iridescent pearl, he could at least
fabricate that their relationship was not bad. A false appearance of camaraderie was something
the Emperor would be happy to see.

The 2nd Prince was asking for the iridescent pearl?

Jing-wang gave Wang Xi a glance. At the same time, the two people both thought about the pearl
that was buried in the corner of who knew where inside the fish tank.

Jing-wang didn’t particularly like this pearl from Qiu-shi. Later on, he gave the little carp plenty
of other gemstones. The little carp hasn’t rolled this iridescent pearl for a long time. Originally,
he planned to quietly get rid of it. Now that the 2nd Prince was asking, might as well return it to
him.
Jing-wang gave Wang Xi a nod. Mu TianZhao(2) was secretly delighted. As long as Jing-wang
offered up this iridescent pearl, then everything was settled. Yet unexpectedly, Wang-gonggong
said: “2nd Prince, please come with this old servant to retrieve the pearl.”

Mu TianZhao(2): ???

Because the 2nd Prince had made the request, and Jing-wang didn’t oppose, with the other
Princes all watching, the 2nd Prince couldn’t cower and could only follow Wang Xi on a winded
path to the back of the hall.

The 2nd Prince felt somewhat nervous, terrified that Jing-wang’s subordinates were going to
secretly take him out. Luckily, he was pretty safe this entire trip.

Wang Xi led Mu TianZhao(2) into a room and pointed at a rather large crystal tank and said with
a smile: “There was an accident with the iridescent pearl. It sank over there. 2nd Prince, you can
get it yourself.”

Mu TianZhao(2): !!!

Wang Xi was obviously purposely making things difficult. The 2nd Prince was startled. What
was Jing-wang trying to do? Why would the iridescent pearl fall into a fish tank?

Such a huge fish tank, it was hard to take in the whole view with one look. Plus, the fish tank
was full of precious gems. How was he supposed to find it?

Mu TianZhao(2) braced himself and looked. He wanted to find it first and then summon
someone to pull it out for him.

Suddenly, he discovered a fish laying on a white stone rock inside the fish tank. There was even
water grass placed on top of the fish’s body, how strange.

This fish– seemed to be the same one that Jing-wang brought over before. It was Jing-wang’s
pet fish.

Mu TianZhao(2) and Qiu-shi both suffered because of this fish. The 2nd Prince immediately
became vigilant and wanted to stay further away from this unlucky fish.
Yet unexpectedly, he noticed with his keen eyes that this fish was lying really weirdly,
completely stiff all over without any slight movement at all.

Jing-wang’s fish…seemed to have died again.

The 2nd Prince: “……”

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